Highlighted entries:
1969
Pitchers Stan Coveleski and Waite Hoyt are voted into the Hall of Fame by the Special Veterans Committee.
Are they celebrating Stan Coveleski Day in South Bend today?
1950
The TV show WHAT'S MY LINE premiers with Phil Rizzuto as the very first mystery guest.
My favorite What's My Line? mystery guest to sign in was Ray Nitschke.
1943
After experimenting with a vest worn over knit jerseys, the Cubs return to conventional baggy flannels for 1943. The outfitting change saves the organization $2,000 on the cost for uniforms.
$2,000 was a lot of money back then.
1936
The baseball writers vote for the first players to be named to the new Baseball Hall of Fame. Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson, and Walter Johnson each receive the requisite 75 percent of ballots cast. Active players also are eligible in this first election, with Rogers Hornsby finishing 9th, Mickey Cochrane 10th, Lou Gehrig 15th, and Foxx 19th. Tainted former star Hal Chase receives 11 votes for 25th place, and Joe Jackson has two votes to tie for 36th place.
I'd take everyone that received a vote in this election on my team.
1895
The New York Clipper and the Cincinnati Times-Star both express disapproval of the proposal of putting numbers on uniforms as a means of identifying individual players. The Times-Star advocates a return to the use of "distinctive colors in club uniforms," or the practice of assigning to each position a specific color pattern, first enacted in the early 1880s.
Notice that the New York Clipper and the Cincinnati Times-Star are no longer around while the numbers are going strong.
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